About us

Animos Film Company is a Moscow-based film and video studio of wide creative range and high professional level. The studio specializes in the production of animation and documentary films, as well as promotional video clips using animation.

The Animos Studio was founded in 1999 by Tengiz Aleksandrovich Semenov, a well-known film director, producer and screenwriter, winner of the USSR Lenin Prize, Honored Artist of Russia. Currently, he is the Studio’s General Director. The Studio’s Artistic Director is Natalya Orlova, a prominent director and artist of animation films, winner of the USSR State Prize.

The Studio’s first animation film was “Moby Dick” (director Natalya Orlova), made in collaboration with BBC-1, S4C (Great Britain) and HBO (USA) as part of the “World Classics” project.

All the films won numerous Russian and international awards. “Timoon and the Narwhal”, directed by N. Orlova, got the Cristal prize for Best TV Production at the prestigious International Animated Film Festival in Annecy, France.

The Animos Studio is closely cooperating with the Ministry of Cultureof the Russian Federation in the field of animation and documentary cinema. One of the results of this cooperation in animation is the large-scale project “Russian Classics for Children”. As part of this project, 18 animated features have already been produced. Some films of this series have been awarded international and national prizes and diplomas, among them:

With the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, a number of socially significant documentary films have been produced. Among them, “Knights of the Valley”, about the problems of the Russian world wonder – Kamchatka’s Valley of Geysers Reserve (director Irina Golubeva), “The New Sky” – about the secret mainsprings of the present economic crisis (director Tengiz Semenov), etc.

All in all, 20 documentaries have been produced. Many of them got awards at Russian and international festivals.